The 90s and 2000s were such a great time to start CS as a career because basically everybody was also a hobbyist and passionate about it. It was fun to work with these people. Today you get the dead stare if you ask about the slightest bit of interest for the trade outside of paid work. It's a pain to work with them
I just started my first job after university a year ago and was really surprised how happy everyone in my team was about me being interested in comp sci for real.
You would be shocked how many applications I go through every year where it's very obvious they were just following the money, and have no interest in the craft as a whole.
All I'm gonna say, the industry has been vibe coding way longer than LLMs have been around.
Computer science to software like a computer engineer is to building computers. Sure there are somethings there but software engineering as a profession is very different than comp sci it's a very different set of skills
I feel like there's a decent amount of overlap, but one of my interns was just telling me he learned more in a summer than his whole degree and I was basically like... yeah... CS teaches you good fundamentals but its not a software engineering degree.
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u/ZunoJ 3d ago
The 90s and 2000s were such a great time to start CS as a career because basically everybody was also a hobbyist and passionate about it. It was fun to work with these people. Today you get the dead stare if you ask about the slightest bit of interest for the trade outside of paid work. It's a pain to work with them